Any residential "Heating & Cooling" people out there?

[P POPPR]

I'm looking into a home humidifier that attaches to the ductwork in my house. Someone mentioned that these devices leave water spots on things in the house. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

[P POPPR]

We use a de-humidifier in the basement over the summer. During the winter it gets pretty dry in the house and the static electric discharge gets annoying. We have an area of hardwood flooring in the foyer, and the doors throughout the house are wood. You can tell they dry out and shrink a little over the winter.

[ragingfish]

We have a humidifer built into our airflow system...You can tell the difference it makes because if we switch over to heat and don't turn the humidifer on, everyone starts complaining of dry itchy eys, waking up with dry scratchy throats...makes all the difference in the world.Should not impact any woodwork or anything in your house if you set it to a reasonable humidity level. Set it to 100%, yeah, you might have problems...we've had no problems of any kind with it.

[pmh013]

We have one on our furnace, but it doesn't look like they ever got it to work properly (our house was built in 84, we bought in 2002). With the water being so hard here, it just crusts up all the components. Maybe now that we've installed a water softener, we'd have better luck...?

[ragingfish]

quote:We have one on our furnace, but it doesn't look like they ever got it to work properly (our house was built in 84, we bought in 2002). With the water being so hard here, it just crusts up all the components. Maybe now that we've installed a water softener, we'd have better luck...?Yes, but you will have to get the pipes replaced.What the hell are you talking about? Replacing pipes? Not true at all man...

[P POPPR]

We use a water softener as our water is hard. I hope the softener will leave fewer mineral deposits but I keep reading about these things being a breeding ground for bacteria. I'm not sure if the bacteria problem is associates with the furnace mount or just the portable. I'm somewhat interested in a from Spring Air. It uses disks.